and they themselves either be destroyed by the Sword or taken Captive About October the 24th there happens a Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in 8 degrees of Libra and also the 14th of January before there was an Opposition of Saturn and Mars Saturn in 29 degrees of Virgo and Mars 29 degrees of Pisces this threatens Livonia and Austria and Alsatia with devastation it also threatnes loss and damages to the Hollander neither shall Scotland be free things go not well there We have but one Eclipse this Year and that will be of the Moon on the 19th of November at eleven of the Clock at Night it will be a great Eclipse it being celebrated in 8 degrees of Gemini near the Bulls eye it begins in the Mid-heaven and ends in the 9th House Jupiter and Mercury besiege the Sun and all oppose the Eclipsed Moon and this from as violent Stars as she her self is near Mercury is Lord of both the Mid-haven and Ascendant Jupiter is strong and Lord of 7th and 4th in Quartile to the Sign Ascending this Eclipse will have remarkable effects it portends the Incursions of Armies into those Countries under Virgo Pisces Gemini and Sagitarius London thou art also concerned by this Eclypse let thy Magistrates be careful of doing unjustice for the Commonalty will have Justice done them and those that act otherwise may expect when they least think of it pay for their Folly when it is too late London thy Trade will not be good for this Year but be content it is but for a time if thou wilt but consider the State of other Countries thou wilt see that thine is not the worst for in other Countries there shall be pretended Negotiations for the Composure of difference only to delay time to get advantage of one another There will be many Ambassadors to the Covernors of thy Kingdom In this Year 1686 the Comet that appeared in the Year 1680. comes to the Quartile of Mercury and to the Quartile of the great Conjunction 1603 and the Comet that appeared 1682 comes to the Quartile of the Conjunction 1603 and makes a swift passage through Virgo those places under Sagitarius Gemini Virgo and Pisces will be sufferers by this Comets motion it declares Mortality to those People and great Famine in many places And because I would not be too large in my Repititions take the words of Dubartas as it is paraphrased by Jos Silvester The Blazing-Star Threatning the World with Famine Plagues and War To Princes Death to Kingdoms many Crosses To all Estates inevitable Losses To Herds-men Rot to Plow-men hapless Seasons To Saylors Storms to Cities Civil-Treasons On December the 22th day Saturn and Jupiter make their first Sextile Jupiter being in Sagitarius strong and Saturn in Libra weak there shall be strong endeavors made for Peace and Unity in a great many places but because that Saturn is so near the place of the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars I fear it will hardly be accomplished yet in some places it may Now is the War removed out of Hungary into other Countries SECT 5. Of the Astrological Judgment of the Year 1687. IN this Year the Mid. heaven of the great Conjunction comes by direction to the Sextile of the Conjunction it self this is a very good direction and there is no bad signification this Year only the Comet comes in Opposition to the Moon from Pisces the Moon being in Virgo and so by that means affects those two Signs one by his presence and the other by his Opposition The Comet is in Quartile to the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1663 and is in Quartile to the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in the figure of the Full Moon preceeding the Appearance of the New Star 1604. These Positions do afflict Mars and all those Countries under Virgo France and Paris it self will go nigh to be afflicted with a Plague or some Distemper as bad there is great fear amongst of an approaching Catastrophe to befal the Peasants in France a Subject to rebel their Oppressiors are so great which if they do the Roman Party will have the worst of it and they will in a short time Repent of their being so barbarous to the Protestants for their Universal Destruction is drawing on these kind of doings will be the beginning of the downfal of that Tribe of God Spain and Hungary are in yet free but are still troubled with Barren years and one place or other of Spain Territories are afflicted with a Plague This Year Hungaries Towns many of them are laid wast by the Sword and Fire some part of Portugal and Normandy is also afflicted with a Plague The Comet 1682 comes to the place of Mars in the great Conjunction 1683 still the Sword rages in Austria and Alsatia and Livonia Lisbon Friburgh Spiers Frankford at Ments Vienna in Austria and Antwerp these are the places most concerned this Year There will be two Eclypses of the Sun this Year one in May 1st day near noon in 21 degrees of Taurus visible the second in 13 degrees in Scorpio on the 26th at 6 of the Clock in the Morning but part visible These Eclypses have most signification upon great Cattel shewing that there shall be a Mortality among them viz. Horses Cows Oxen and that Russia Polonia Sweedland Lorrain Helvetia and Ireland shall be the places most concerned And let this serve for 1687. SECT 6. Of the Astrological Judgment of the Year 1688. IN this Year also we have no directions of the great Conjunction nor of the New Star 1604 but to begin the Year we have an Opposition of Saturn and Mars from Libra and Aries then upon the 11th day of March Jupiter meets with the first Quadrate of Saturn in 22.36 of Libra Jupiter being in Capricornus The second Quadrate of Saturn and Jupiter falls from Libra and Capricornus Saturn being 19.9 in Libra and Jupiter 19.9 in Capricornus and upon the 8th day of November there is a Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in 2 degrees of that envious Sign Scorpio There is also no less than 4 Eclypses of the Luminaries viz. 2 of the Sun and 2 of the Moca The first is an Eclypse of the Moon April the 5th at 6 of the Clock at night in 26 of Libra The second is an Eclypse of the Sun April 21. 1 of the Clock in the Morning in 11 degrees of Taurus The third will be an Eclypse of the Moon September 30. at 10 of the Clock in the Morning in 17 degrees of Aries All these three being not visible The fourth is an Eclypse of the Sun the 15th day at 7 of the Clock in the Morning in 2 degrees of Scorpio upon the very degree of the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars The November following from all these Configurations may be judged that Italy suffers much and will be inforced to mourn because of the sorrow that she doth undergo Austria is also afflicted by Saturn being in
Ecclesiastical Affairs he portends great Superstition Idolatry Hypocrisie Monkery Jesuitism and all the several Orders of the Church of Rome and he doth signifie all manner of Debauchery and Baseness under Religious Pretences all manner of Sects Schisms Heresies Jewish Superstitions and Ceremonies Unto Mankind in general he threatens great and difficult labour poverty and want to many he afflicts the Body with tedious Infirmities and Diseases as the Consumption in the Reins and inward parts ill and noysome Vapours from whence proceed a Plague Hectick Fevers destruction of Rheum Quartan Agues and such like Diseases as are not easily remedied by the most Skilful Physician he afflicts the Mind with sorrow and fear of lamentable trouble as also Banishment and long imprisonments And as to natural things he portends great want and scarcity destruction of Cattel Corn and Fruits Famine and Mortality unwholesome Airs cold cloudy misty soggy Weather and long and tedious Frosts As to the Sea he signifies Shipwrack and great damage by ruine and decay of Sea banks from whence comes great Inundation of Waters great scarcity of Fish and Fowl that belong to the Waters Of Persons he signifies those of superiour Rank and Quality because he is the highest of all the Planets and moves the slowest and he doth seldom apply to any Planet therefore he signifies great Princes and stable Monarchs but in the general he signifies the laborious Country men Husbandmen Farmers Yeomen c. And in this Conjunction he signifies a deceitful sordid pernicious sort of People who will inhabit in the Court of Princes and Kings who will undermine and subvert the more wholesome purposes intended but I say all these sort of People shall suffer great loss of their Estates and shall obtain in the room thereof unexpected Slaughters Imprisonments Banishments and the like The last time we had Mars in Conjunction of Saturn in Leo was the 10th of August 1650 the December following we had a Comet appeared and I have good reason to predict the appearance of more Comets before 1683 be over let any one but look into the Annals for 1653 and 1654 and they will find what followed that Conjunction 1652 but seeing that the effects of this Conjunction of Saturn and Mars can't last but for two years and Mars being swift in motion at the time of the Conjunction even so shall all that is portended by this Conjunction be as swift in motion viz. Armies shall run like Lightning over a great many Countrys of Europe and shall bring more under subjection in 2 years than any Armies have done for this ten years last past and forasmuch as Christianity was first preacht by Christ our Saviour under the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo and now Mars being in Conjunction in this Sign with Saturn and having of the greater power will afflict Christianity with the Sword more than ordinary At the time of this famous Conjunction we find Mars newly entered into Virgo in Quartile to the great Conjunction 1603 and moveth but slowly from whence the evils signified by Mars to be of long continuance viz. War and Bloudshed Virgo is held to be sign of the Conjunction before the coming in of the Normans and Mars hath not been in Virgo in neither of the Conjunctions since 1603 therefore may more than ordinary events follow the more because Mars before the second Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter January 1682 3 will pass the Quartile of Saturn and Jupiter 1603 and also the Quartile of Saturn Jupiter and the New Star 1604 and the Quartile of Sol and Venus and the Opposition of the Moon 1603 and comes to the Conjunction of his own place 1603 and all before Saturn and Jupiter meets the second time let but any one consider the position of Mars the first time the two Superiours meet and they will find cause enough to dread the evils of Mars Now Mars being placed in the 9th from the Conjunction 1603 and meeting with the Quartile of Mercury Lord thereof first all those places that are under the gubernation of Mercury will feel the smart of the influence of Mars now because Mercury is posited in Sagitarius in the great Conjunction and Mars casting his Square there out of the 9th of that Conjunction those places shall feel the heavy effect of Mars viz. Wars now the places under Sagitarius are Spain Dalmatia Sclavonia Hungary Moravia with abundance of more Countrys and Cities that are under the position of Sagitarius for their Ascendant these places must expect to have great Calamity some of them shall suffer by Invasion others by Plague others by Famine and a great destruction of Mankind in general Mereury generally signifies all manner of Arts and Sciences as also Merchants these sorts of Men must expect to be great sufferers by the power of Mars viz. great Storms from whence comes great Shipwracks Mercury and Gemini govern Flanders part of England and Lumbardy Brabant the Dukedom of Wertenburgh London Corduha in Spain Bruges in Flanders Mentz and a many more places that are not yet attributed to Gemini in these places may expect to have Commotions for Mars is the stirrer up of Wars damnable Seditions Tumults Insurrections the frowns and indignation of Princes towards their Subjects caused by Mars he being Lord of the 11th and 12th of the great Conjunction 1603 and is placed near the Cusp of the 10th of that Conjunction he doth by the Positions represent Noblemen that should be in great favour of Princes but are great enemies of the People in general if we place Gemini upon the Cusp of the Ascendant we shall find the Tory Mars to be placed in fifth in Quartile to the Sign Ascending he being Lord of the 12th and in his last Conjunction with Jupiter in Leo he opposed the 10th what can we expect from hence but that Mars should act like a Tory as he is among the Stars setting all together by the Ears and that now publickly in those places under Gemini and he will be as well rewarded for his pains for Mars is placed in the Eighth the House of Death of the Full Moon preceding the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1682 if we place Aries upon the Ascendant we shall find both the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars and Jupiter and Mars and Jupiter fall all of them in the 6th in Quartile to the intercepted Sign Taurus in the Ascendant and the Sun Lord of the 6th having lately suffered an Eclipse in the 6th all these will cause both the great and small Cattle to suffer by Diseases to the detriment of the Country Farmer that lives in those Countrys subject to the Sign Aries the more because Mars is in Quartile to the second if we consider the place where Mars casteth his Opposition we shall find it to be in Pisces and Pisces is assigned by Astrologers to govern Portugal Galitia Normandy with the Citys of Rhems Worms and Ratisbon and many more places this
hateful Opposition of Mars will cause in those places great corruptions of their Fruits by impetuous blasts and likewise will destroy their Grain causing a great scarcity thereby He will cause great heat and drought and will exclte mens minds to great rashness and to all manner of evil and likewise cause great dissention among Kindred as for Virgo the place where Mars is at the time of the first Conjunction are attribute to govern Achaia Greece Athens Mesopotamia Babylon Assyria part of the Rhyne Silesia the lower of Citys Jerusalem Rhodes Navar in Italy Paris Lyons Basil Heydleberg Erphord these are the chief places under the dominion of unfortunate Mercury and therefore must expect to meet with such like misfortunes as are of the nature of Mars among which Paris is like to suffer by notorious Frauds Cheats Mutinies Tumults and most horrid Villanies and secret Conspiracies nay more than that I fear another Massacre or some such unruly actions and thus much for the general judgment of Mars during the time that he is in Virgo but if we consider the second Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter we shall find Mars then placed in Libra and he doth continue 226 days in that Sign and doth stay but 53 days in Virgo therefore those places that are under Libra Aries Cancer and Capricorn shall have a longer time of suffering than those places that are under Virgo Pisces Gemini and Sagitarius because Mars maketh such a swift passage through Virgo Those places under Libra are Austria Alsatia Livonia Citys Lisbon Fribourg Spiers Frankford at Mane Vienna in Austria Antwerp and a many more places not as yet allotted to this Sign in these places will Mars powre down his Influence which will be of the nature as before recited Now during the time that he passeth through Libra he will cast his hateful Opposition to Aries as if he did intend nothing but fire and sword to those places under Aries but he will not be able to do the mischief he intends because he is in his detriment and the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter doth behold the Sign Aries with a Trine yet nevertheless they must have their share of the effect of Mars being in Opposition to their Sign The ingenious Anton in Satyr 5. hath these verses of the Qualities of Mars Blood Death and Tragick Stories Mars doth yield A Golgotha of Graves whose purple field Dy'd Crimson with his fatal Massacres Craves Bloody Ink and Scarlet Characters A Pen that like a Bullets force would reel A Marble Conscience And this shall suffice for the Judgment of Mars in all the three Conjunctions Now let us consider the Conjunction it self We find it falls in Leo not far enlongated from that famous fixed Star called the Lyons Heart which Star is of the nature of Mars We are advised by those that have been learned in this Study to take the Fortitudes and Debillâ—udes of all the Planets both the Full Moon going before this Conjunction and the New Moon following by which means we shall find which is the strongest of them all and he we must account to have the greatest share of the effects Now having considered I find Saturn and Jupiter to be equally fortified and they two to be the strongest of all the rest both of them at the Full Moon having of 27 Testimonies of strength all the rest having of but few Saturn we find to have no Essential Dignities and Jupiter to have but Triplicity The Declination of Saturn and Jupiter is above 18 degrees North at the time of the Conjunction by which means they have a great Diurnal Arch and by that means continue above 15 hours above the Horizon between Rising and Setting therefore will these Northern parts be subject the more to their effects for by how much a Star doth make the longer stay above the Horizon by so much more is he fitted by those his direct beams to make a stronger impression of his vertue over or upon those parts and seeing that not only the places particularly subject to the Dominion of the Sign wherein the Conjunction happens but also the Triplicity and Quadrangle thereto belonging according to Ptolomy Now the Triplicity Aries Leo Sagitarius are said by most Authors to operate most upon the Christians and according to the opinion of Cardane the Roman Empire which if true then by the declination of the Planets the Northern and North-East parts of Europe will be the most principal places designed for the operation of the effects of this Conjunction Now under the sign of this Conjunction viz. Leo are Gallia Togata the Alpes Italy Sicily Apulia Bohemia Turkey part Cities Rome Damasco Ravenna Cremona Prague Now all of these places shall feel in one kind or other the smart of this Conjunction Those eminent Persons who have the Sign Leo ascending at their Nativity and near the Degrees of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter will be the Persons most active in carrying on the affairs of those places wherein they live but by reason there is a Conjunction of Saturn and Mars near the same Degrees and near the same time viz. a Month before this I say will fling those Persons into many Perils and Dangers both to their Body by health and Estate and those Persons that have this Conjunction in Quartile or Opposition to their Degree ascending at Birth will be much afflicted with Sickness and Crosses and those that have the Conjunction in Quartile or Opposition of their Degree of their tenth ☉ or ☽ or ☿ will find great Crosses as to Honour and Reputation but on the contrary all those Persons that have the Conjunction in Trine or Sextile to their Degree ascending or to the Degree of their tenth ☉ or ☽ or part of Fortune shall all of them injoy health and gain great Reputation and Wealth during the time of the Conjunction the Operation which is worth our observation is the New Moon before the second Conjunction viz. the 17th day of January the Sun suffers an Eclipse near the cusp of the 9th with the Dragons-tail and Saturn and Jupiter are in Opposition to both the Sun and Moon Now Saturn is Lord of the 7th 8th and 9th and the Moon being Lady of the Ascendant and the Sun Lord of the second Now the Ascendant doth represent the common sort of People and the second the moveable wealth therefore must the common People suffer both in Body and Estate Authors tell us that when the Sun suffers an Eclipse in the first decade of Aquarius it is the Fore-runner of publick sorrow and mourning to those of the highest Rank and Quality but not so to the poor Husbandman and by reason it falls so near the 9th it shews detriment to Religion and all things relating to the 9th and the Full Moon following of this Conjunction the Moon suffers an Eclipse in the 23d Degree of Leo near both the Conjunction and that famous fixt Star Cor Leonis and the same
Author tell us that if that Luna suffer an Eclipse in the third decade of Leo it declares the discontentedness of the people in general and that they should be desirous of new Laws and Governours If the Ascendant of an Eclipse doth represent the common People then is Cancer the Sign and the Moon their signification and Saturn being Lord of the 8th is in Opposition to the Moon from hence may be conjectured the Death of the vulgar sort of People by a Plague or some such kind of Diseases and in the Full Moon following the Conjunction the Sun is Lord of the Ascendant and is placed in the 8th in a dejected condition and Saturn is Lord of the 8th House and in the Ascendant from this Eclipse also may be predicted the Death of the common sort of people by Sickness neither will the Governours of Towns and Cities escape Death for Mars Lord of the 10th of the Lunar Eclipses following the Conjunction January 1682 3 is placed in the 4th in Opposition to the 10th in a very weak condition from whence their Death shall come through their own means If we consider the Sun Lord of the Conjunction at the time of the Conjunction October 1682. which according to Mr. Street falls on the 17th day we shall find him placed in Scorpio about 4 Degrees near the place of Mercury at the appearance of the New Star 1604 this doth declare that the Great of the Earth viz. Emperours Kings Princes and chief Governours should adhere to the Counsel of those men that endeavour to destroy both them and themselves for although Mercury may be accounted for one that hath wit yet being placed in Scorpio at the appearance of that New Star shews him to be but of little honesty and Mercury also being in Scorpio at the time of this Conjunction in Quartile to the Conjunction it self and do dispose of Mars also from whence may be conjectured that a cunning sort of People shall indeavour to poyson the wholesom Laws by bad Counsel and fling the Governours of Kingdoms Towns and Cities into eminent danger of Destruction The first Aspect the Sun meets with after the Conjunction that is of note is the Sextile of Mars this will make those Persons signified by the Sun to have great trust in their Arms Mars at the same time is in Quartile to the place of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1663 and to the Quartile of Saturn at the appearance of the New Star 1604. I pray God in his mercy preserve the City Gemini from being oppressed with the Sword and all Martial actions the next Aspect the Sun meets withal is the Quartile both of Saturn and Jupiter this according to natural causes should afflict those Persons signify'd by Sol in the Conjunction with horrour and amazement and shall be in danger of their Lives Honour and Estates and be forced to fly for safeguard for by bad advice they shall attempt to do that which they shall never attain to by which means they shall bring themselves and fame to destruction for ever for the Sun is in a fixed Sign let those Persons beware that have 10 or 11 degrees of Leo Ascending and Saturn 22 8 d. m. in Sagitarius with the Sun 1.46 of Scorpio I say let those Persons beware for they have lately had the Sun Lord of their Ascendant Eclips'd upon the very degree Ascending And there has been also a Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars upon the very degree Ascending and a Conjuction of Saturn and Mars not far from the degree thereof all these bring great sorrow and Tribulation to these Natives then born and to help forward they have their mid-haven by direction to the Opposition of Saturn this destroys the Honour and Reputation of all those Persons aforesaid if they be a Trades-man he cracks his Credit and is in danger of a Prison he will likewise be in danger of being brought to publick Justice for some treasonable practice that he hath committed and if there be a Prince in Europe that was born under such a position of Heaven he shall go nigh to be in danger of his Life by the wrath and Indignation of the common sort of Pople in short they will bend all their forces against him and will reduce him to an Estate far below his Birth the Opposition falls in Gemini therefore let such Persons beware of committing of Crimes in those places under Gemini for if they do they must expect to come to publick Justice let them think themselves never so secure The King of France is thought to have about 22 degrees of Scorpio Ascending in his Nativity if so then is this Conjunction in Quartile to his Ascendant this will cause that mighty Monarch to be afflicted in his Body with Sickness if not Death Norway is under Scorpio the house of Mars where Mercury is unhappily posited and the Conjunction it self casting a Square thereto this shew the great misfortunes these People are like to endure by War Uproars Tumults Ship-wrack if not a great want of Grane Taurus the Opposite Sign is the Ascendant of Ireland Poland and the North part of Sweedland the Conjunction casteth it's Square to it also from whence those places may expect to have a great Mortality because Taurus is upon the Cusp of the 4th and Saturn and Jupiter both casting their Square from the Cusp of the 8th and if we place Taurus upon the Ascendant then will the Conjunction fall in their 5th and that doth betoken Abortive Births and some more than ordinary Monstrous Productions and that there should be many Treaties Embassies and Messages for Peace all which are signified by the 5th House Italy in general and Rome in particular are under Leo the Sign in which this triple Conjunction falls therefore will they be sensible in a high nature of the influence of this Conjunction it denotes to them great Droughts and Barrenness of the Earth as also great Plagues they are threatned with great Calamity by Fire the Sword Uproars Tumults Murthers Grievous Contentions and Quarrelling and deposition of many Noble Princes and Rulers from their Honours and Dignities without hope of restitution Death and Destruction to others Rome many or most of them these Enormities are threatned then certainly you Princes of Italy and also the Roman Pontifex or Conclave of Cardinals of the See of Rome will all of you find great and most grievous Distempers in your Government and so will many People and Nations be subject to the Fiery Triplicity There shall also be great Rents and Schisms amongst the Religious Orders of Monks Fryars Jesuits so likewise shall there be amongst those of different Judgments call them by what name you please in the figure of the Full Moon preceding the first Conjunction we find all the Planets above the Earth the Moon excepted this doth denote that what is pretended by this Conjunction will break out in a short time of the Conjunction it self upon the Cusp of
the 10th House we find Scorpio and Mars Lord thereof in the 8th and the Conjunction is in Quartile to the very degree thereof Now the 10th House signifies all Magistrates viz. Kings Princes Governours of Towns and Cities viz. Majors Bayliffs all Captains and Conductors in War likewise all Justices of the Peace all these shall find great trouble in their place and Office some of them shall exercise Tyranny over them they are to rule and by that means cause their Subjects to rebel and by that means bring themselves and posterity to great destruction others of them will act beyond their Legal Power and by that means bring themselves under the lash of the Law of the Countrey wherein they live and shall end their days by publick Justice others they will end their days by Plagues others will end their davs by Famine and others by Gun-shot In short there will be a great rout of such men represented by the 10th House Upon the Cusp of the 11th House we find Mars and Venus therein and Mars casting off his Square to Sagitarius out of the 8th the House of death As to Kings and Rulers of Countries the 11th represents their Associates Councellors Allies their Treasure Ammunition Soldiery now Mars being Lord of the 10th and being placed in the 8th in Quartile to the 11th House from which may be conjectured that the Princes of the Earth should grow very ambitious and shall wast their Estates by War If any one will be but pleased to inquire into History they will find that the Roman Empire had its rise under the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Scorpio and that was 45 years before the coming of Christ and by reason of there being a triple Conjunction in the Sign Leo in Quartile to the Conjunction that preceded the rise of that Empire from whence may be expected great calamity to befal that Empire if not a final Catastrophe About the year 1331 began the Ottomon Family and that was under the Gubernation of a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Gemini Now is this Conjunction in Leo 1682 in Sextil to that Conjunction preceding the Rise of the Ottoman Family this shall cause that Monarch to thrive much besides he at this time hath very good directions in his Nativity and forasmuch as the Conjunction favours that mighty Prince and afflicts the Roman Empire therefore may it be conjectured that he shall dismember the Roman Empire of some of his Territories and shall continue so doing for some years If we consider the 9th there we find Libra 21 degrees and the Sun in the 9th in his fall opposed by the Moon Lady of the 7th and Venus Lady of the 9th has lately been in Quartile of Mars The 9th signifies Religion Pilgrimage long Journeys or Voyages Ceremonies Sacrifices Faith Clergy-men of all Sorts Arts and Sciences the Law it also signifies learning in general and all Church livings That which is worth our taking notice of is the Comet that was seen in the Year 1680. when it came to be visible over all Europe it was in Quartile to the degree of the 9th as if the beginning of trouble should fall upon matters of Faith from whence may be conjectured that there shall be great persecution to those that are of a contrary opinion to those that are established by authority even to the undoing of many thousands this Comet had its first appearance not far from the degrees of the 9th and therefore all matters relating to the 9th must suffer during the time of this Conjunction Operation and for as much as the Comet was in Opposition of Saturn when it appeared December 1680. shall there be great wrangling and great fewds both about matters of Law as of Divinity If the Ascendant represent the vulgar sort of people then doth the 2d House signifie their wealth upon which we find Aquarius and the Dragons-Tail not far from thence and both Saturn and Jupiter are in Opposition to the second also Now the second House signifieth Riches Estate Goods of Fortune Money Plate Houshold-slust Corn Jewels and is the proper personal estate of any man Now this Conjunction falling in Opposition to the second House signifies there should be but small buying and selling and as little enriching ones Estate Notwithstanding many shall much desire it I cannot but judg from hence the sudden undoing of many a man by Rapine Thievery Taxes legal or illegal there will great impoverishment to the Estates and Inheritance of the Nobility to the Clergy to the Gentleman to the Lawyer and the industrious Merchant and to the Yeomen and hard labouring Farmer the Diurnal operating Labourer the Curious or Idle Mechanick the Collier Tinker and the most sordid of all Professions except the Hangman To the Merchant I divine great loss by Piracies Shipwracks and by broken Crediters or Bankrupt Debtors I cannot imagine by this Conjunction being in Oppositon to the second who or what kind of man or of what Nature and Profession he shall be of that in these Turbulent Times as these are like to be for some years after the first Conjunction shall either thrive or keep his own And forasmuch as the second House hath a fixed Sign on it and the Conjunction it self in a fixed Sign also so shall be the means whereby men shall be impoverished He that is rich to day is not certain to abound to morrow he that kept Servants this month may be a Servant or a Slave himself the next An Universal Poverty in Estate in Cattel Corn and what not a time uncomfortable I see for some succeeding years bad to all good to few If the tenth signifies Kings in general you shall find Mars but in a dejected condition in the 8th and worst of all he is in Quartile to the 11th that signifies the support of Princes With what difficulty labour and discontent shall the Grandees of the World have to supply their necessary disbursments for part of the years allotted to the conclusion of this Conjunction In the next place if we make Jupiter the general Significator of the Nobility Gentry Episcopacy Lawyers Prelacy is from Jupiter Munkery from Saturn so that Cloisters of Fryars as well as Benefices of Bishops will smart and come short of their Revenues If you will know by whom this shall be Mars being Lord of the 10th points Authority and strong-hand by the Souldiers the Dragons-tail denoteth vulgar Persons Clowns day-labourers Vagabond fellows their own Tenants as forward as any body for what either the Souldier Regal commands or Magistracy leaves the Peasant will in time lay hold of the rest Guido Bonatus tells us that if Jupiter be corporeally joyned to Saturn men do their actions silently clocking all their actions with Religion with an appearance of Fidelity and Observation of the commands of Justice shall this Age be pestered with such sort of these men that shall pretend Justice and Law and rob men of their Rights and Estates it
1665. but I could never get an Ephemeris thereof the first Comet that was seen in the Year 1664 was by all that observed it to be a Saturnal Comet viz. of a Saturnal colour and the Comet 1665. was of the nature of Mars and the Comet 1671 1 was of the nature of Saturn and Mercury and the Comet 1680 was of the nature of Saturn and so is this last Comet that appeared 1682. I would have the young Artist take notice that this last Comet had its beginning about the middle of Cancer but was not begun to be observed till it was entred into Leo and it has been observed to enter Scorpio before its disappearance CHAP. X. Of the Probable effects that attend these Comets in General COmets hath always been known to be the Antecedents of Tragical Events and Astrologers have endeavoured to give us Rules to Judge the Quality thereof First By its motion in the Sign of the Zodiack whether it be Direct or Retrograde Secondly By its Magnitude and Colour and Thirdld by the part of Heaven unto which their Stream doth point I shall say but little of the Comets 1664 and 1665. Nor of the Comet 1671 2. Most if not all the evil that was presignified by them being all by-past for had we not a devouring Plague 1665. As also a War with Dutch and French and in the year 1666. was not London almost destroyed by Fire had we not also an Invasion by the Dutch in Kent and sustained great loss by them besides the great Calamity a great many more parts of Europe had about those times and after the appearance of the Comet 1671 2 had we not a great Scarcity in the North Parts of England as also a War with the Hollander Did not the French and English Invade Holland to the loss of a great many Men and Towns And has not that War been prejudicial to Germany ever since who is he that is not sensible of the many brave Towns that has been destroyed by that War to the undoing of a many thousand Families And what Man is he that dare presume to say that Comets are not the Premonisher to Men-kind of some more than ordinary Judgment to fall upon them for their sins But such hath been the secury of our Ages that unless the Judgment falls upon them so soon as these Signs of Heaven appear they cannot be made to beleive that those Signs signifie any thing at all but let those rest themselves as they beleive secure but let them remember that security dwell next door to destruction For should any one have said to any of those People dwelling upon the Ryne in Alsatio in the year 1670. that they should have so many of their Towns destroyed by a Forreign Invador they would hardly a believed you but did rest themselves as secure as we or any one could do but this by the by the Comets of whose effects we have had little or no many festation as yet is the Comet that appeared 1680 and the Comet that appeared the while we were a Writing hereof Now the Comet that appeared 1680 did first appear in the Morning on the 7th day of November in or near 6 deg of Libra but was not seen to any purpose till it appeared in Caprieorn and did continually appear until it had moved into Taurus and near the 20 degrees thereof it disappeared Now Authors tell us that the Motion of a Comet out of one Sign into another doth manifest also an Hostile Motion of an Enemy from one Region or Country into another Now by these Comets viz. 1680 and 1682 manifests the beginning of more Wars and the sorrowful effects subsequent unto those Wars viz. the flight of many from their proper habitations banishment of others death of great Men of the World poverty and want to others suddain terrour or astonishment to all sorrs of people unushal Tempests obscure Weather many Shipwracks great store of Snow in its Season great Floods and mighty Inundations and forasmuch as both the heads of these Comers was of a Saturn Colour from whence may be expected Plagnes and Famine to a great many places great Frost and Snow Now as to principal places that is like to be sufferers in these calamities are those places that both these Comets passed through and those places that are under those Signs that Rise all the time that both these Comets was visible now the Comet in 1680 passed through Libra Scorpio Sagitary Capricorn Aquaries and Pisces Aries Taurus now while the Comet passed through Scorpio and Sagitary it was so near the Sun that it could not be seen there for those places are the least concerned in the effects of this Comet And during the time of this Comets appearing every Evening Cancer and Leo did Ascend therefore those places under those Signs must expect to have a great share if not the greatest of the Calamity that this Comet doth signifie Under Libra are Austria Alsatia Livonia Sabandia Delphinat Dastrina Caspia Thebaida Sundgova Cities Lysbon Friburgh Spiers Frankford upon Menc Halum Suenorum Heilbran Frising Vienna in Austria Antwerp Under Scorpio Norway Bavaria Matagony Catalonia Cities Algiers Valentia in Spain Messana Vienna in Holland Gaunt in Flanders Frankford upon Odor Sagitary Spain Dalmatia Sclavonia Hungaria Moravia Misnia Cities Toledo Studgard Rotenburg Buda Gascovis Capricorn Macedonia Albania Bulgaria Greece Mascovia Lituania Saxony Hussia Cities Oxford Mechlin Berga Brandenburg Vilna Aquares Muscovia Sweadland Westphalia Mosel Piemont Bavaria part Cities Hamburgh Bremc Trent Salizburgh Ingolstaec Pisces Portugal Galitia Normandy Cities Alexandria Hispolis Rhemes Vorines Rutisponc Under Aries are England France Germany Selesia the Highest Polonia part Burgundy Denmark Cities Naples Capua Ferrara Utrecht Crackow Taurus Russia Sweadland North part Lorraign Franconia Ireland Cities Banonia Mantua Nants Leipsig Some of which Countries the War is already apparent what is remaining the next 20 years will make manifest Neither can it be expected that any of the places should undergo all the Calamities that this Comet is the premonisher of some places shall suffer by War others by Plagues others by Famine for the Comet will opperate variously upon various places When this Comet first appeared it appeared in the very places of Mars in the great Conjunction 1603. and Mars at the time of the Comets appearance was in Virgo in Quartile to the Sun in that Conjunction hence may War be expected Mars is Lord of the grand Seigniors Nativity and he afflicts Sagitary and Gemini and Pisces therefore those places will be the first that suffers by War and that by the great Turk the last Comet that appeared had its beginning about the middle of Cancer and passed through Cancer Leo Virgo Libra and ended in Scorpio and during of this Comets appearing in the Evening Aries did ascend therefore those places under that Sign shall be the greatest sharers in the Calamities that this Comet doth foreshew viz. Wars Plagues and scarcity of Grain
much shall serve at this time for the Judgment of these Comets CHAP. XI The Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter October 1682. Astrologically handled THis Conjunction which we are now to handle happeneth to be the fourth Conjunction since their last entrance into this Triplicity the first being in the Year 1603 already handled in the Discourse going before And forasmuch as this Conjunction falls in the Regal Sign Leo of the fiery Triplicity and being the fourth Conjunction they have made therein which Conjunction 1603 being the seventh return into this Triplicity since the Creation of the World and that this Conjunction in Leo being thrice repeated will therefore produce eminent effects and seeing it being a thing impossible to get the true time of the Conjunctions themselves we must content our selves with the times of the New and Full Moons before and after the Conjunction the first Conjunction happeneth about the 17th day of October 1682 the second Conjunction happeneth on or about the 20th of January 1682 3 and the 3d. and last falleth about the 10th of May 1683 according to the Caroline Tables of Thomas Street the full Moon before the Celebration of this Conjunction falls on the 6th day of October at 1 h. 33 m. P.m. and the New Moon following falls on the 20th day of October at 1 h. 41 P.m. the Figures of Heaven are as follow Full Moon Octob. 6. at 1 H. 35 P. M. latt 51.32 New Moom Oct. 20. at 1 H. 41 P. M. latt 51.32 Now Authors tell us that if Saturn and Jupiter be conjoyned in Leo there should be some sturdy Prince that should trouble all his Confederates and that all Princes should grow ravenous and exercise Tyranny over their Subjects and shall endeavour to make himself great by undirect means but in the height of all his greatness vanisheth by sudden death or is much molested by his Vassals leaving his Posterity in a very unsettled condition for although this Trigon breeds valiant Men yet they are extreamly unfortunate and those evils that have a beginning under the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo are fixed for a long time for every Prince doth vainly conceit himself to be the only Alexander but their Pride and Vain-glory shall bring themselves and Posterity to a State much worse than their beginning This last Conjunction we had in Leo was that which happened in the Year 1623 and that was followed with the Death of King James 1625 and a great Plague and we have cause to fear the approach of another great Plague in the Year 1683 from which good Lord deliver us for if we do but consider the position of Heaven the Full Moon preceeding this Conjunction you will find that Mars Lord of the 10th in the 8th House in Quartile to Mercury in the great Conjunction and the Sun Lord of the 8th is in Quartile to the Sign Ascending and the Conjunction it self is not far from the 8th House these things make me to judge that we have a Plague very near us and a very great one and that before 1683 be over but I dare not be too positive in such determinations but when I consider the Conjunction it self I find it to fall in the sixth of those places that have Aries for their Ascendant and in the 4th of those that have Gemini therefore let those beware for they are threatned with no less than a Mortality and that a great one which God in his Mercy divert For a preparative to this great Conjunction we have the Sun Ecclipsed upon the 24th day of July at which time Mars Lord of the 7th was in the 10th in Quartile to the Sign Ascending the Eclips falls not far in longated form the place of this Conjunction viz. in or about 11 degrees of Leo Junctinus tells us that when the Sun is eclipsed in the Fiery Triplicity denotes the Banishment of some Great Person with discord and hatred between the People and some great Ruler or Governour many repinings grudgings and dissentions Motions of Armies much War and slaughter of Mankind burning of Houses depopulations of many Countries and Citys very Pestilent Diseases the Eclips it self fâ—ll in the 10th therefore it will chiefly concern those that are Rulers and Covernours of Towns and Citys The next thing that helps to usher in this Conjunction is the Conjunction of Tory Mars with Jupiter as if he did intend to poysen Justice with a hasty cholerick humour and cause those whose places is to act prudently to act like Mad-men as if they did endeavour to set all in an uproar Mars naturally as he is posited in Leo doth represent Men of a daring Spirit hectoring and bouncing governed too much by their own will and delighting much in quarrelling and can hear of nothing that will please them so much as Wars and Battels and his being in Conjunction with Jupiter makes him have a great shew of Religion with all his actions Let those places under Leo look to it for they are principally concerned yet those places under Aquarius and Scorpio and Taurus will have a great share in these kind of actions I pray God bless the Kingdom of Ireland from unruly actions for they are under Taurus and this Conjunction and all the Conjunctions in Leo are in Quartile to that Sign Upon the 11th day of September 1682 there was a Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in or about the 16 degrees of Leo this Conjunction on of Saturn and Mars falls near the place of the last of the three Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter May the 10th 1683 from whence may be expected great Alterations as to Mundane Affairs Mars I find in the Conjunction to be elevated above Saturn having more North latitude than Saturn and Saturn being very weak therefore hath Mars more power than Saturn therefore what is chiefly signified by the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars will be wholly Martial Now if the Ottoman Family had their Rise under the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Scorpio as is verily believ'd it did then that People shall afflict a great part of Christendom for he has lately or will very shortly change his Aphelion into Virgo which doth shew that those People shall move out of their own Country in way of Conquest and shall continue so doing for some years to come even till they have made themselves Masters of great part of Christendome It we consider the quality of Saturn in this Conjunction of Saturn and Mars we shall find Saturn to be very weak for Leo is Saturn detriment and is just like a man that is an Enemy to his own House and Family and one that should seek to destroy his Posterity Saturn generally is the cause of Matters Political and Civil all subtle and Politick Councils deceitful private and cunning Stratagems covetousness self-ends destruction to some Ancient Family and Building as to Laws Liberties Customs and Priviledges depopulations And this he doth signifie in Political Matters In
Trine 1697 Sept. the 14th day ♄ in ♒ 1 3 ♃ in ♠1 3 First Quadrat 1698 May the 24th day ♄ in ♒ 19 28 ♃ in ♠19 28 Second Quadrat 1698 July the 12th day ♄ in ♒ 17 21 ♃ in ♠17 21 Third Quadrat 1699 Octob. the 10th day ♄ in ♒ 24 51 ♃ in ♠24 51 Sextile CHAP. XII Of the most Principal Times wherein the effects of this Conjunction will be manifested THe method that I shall take to determine the time of the effects of this Conjunction is by directions transits lesser Conjunctions and Aspects of the Planets especially of the Superiours also Eclipses of the Luminaries and Comets that hath lately appeared and doth opperate with this Conjunction these do most certainly shew the perticular Times of the Events all which as may be most necessary and beneficial for the young Students I shall handle not troubling him or my self with Niceties These in themselves are not only demonstrative and most rationally to be observed but is also the Judgment of the Ancient and Modern Astrologians as may appear by these Aphorisms following Ludoe de Rig. Alph. 44. In English is thus not only by the revolution of the years of the World or of a City or of a Sect may'st thou have the knowledge of future events but it behoveth thee also to consider the directions of those Radixes or beginnings And also in the 47 Aph. of the same Author new evils are moved or stirred up in a City when the direction cometh to the Quadrature or Opposition of the Infortunes which if they be Retrograde the evil will be the worse The 245 Aph. of Anonim in English is thus in great Conjunction of the Superiours use directions that thou maist know the times of the grand mutations of Cities and Countrys and the 293 Aph. of the same Author he adviseth us to use directions in the beginnings of Sect. that we may know the accidents attending which is to be understood in all other Radixes Many more Aphorisms might be produced to this purpose but I must hasten note what hath been said of the directions is also as true in Aspects and other configurations according to that of Cardaneus not only the Conjunctions of the Superiors but also the Quadrate and Opposite Rayes or Aspects do produce great nutations in the World The method that I have used in directing of the great Conjunction 1603 and the New-Star 1604. Is according to Kepler who directs all the Planets in the Ecliptick allowing the motion of a day for a year and the Ascendant and Mid-heaven of the Full-Moon after the Conjunction I have directed allowing four minutes of time for a year the same method have I used in the Full-Moon preceeding the New-Star 1604. But the method that I have used in the lesser Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter is the same that we use in Revolutions of Nativities that is to allow the time between the Ascendant of the Lunation preceeding the Conjunction and the Ascendant of the Lunation of the Conjunction following to be the measure of time for the year between the two Conjunctions let be 19 or 20 years as has been already shewed in the Discourse before going now follows the Judgment of the several years his Conjunction is allowed to opperate SECT I. Of the Astrological Judgment of the Year 1683. IN this year that hath been so pointed at by the Antients the Ascendant of the Conjunction 1603. comes to the Opposition of the Conjunction it self and the Mid-heaven to the Trine of Mars and Mercury comes also to the Sextile of the Sun and Trine of the Moon and Sextile of Venus these are notable directions and will have as motable accidents to attend them the Opposition of the Conjunction falls in Gemini those places that are under that Sign shall find great alterations both in matter of Trade much affliction to the common People in general a Plague or some Distemper as bad will destroy a great part of their Inhabitants all things goes cross with them an Insurrection is feared the Magistrates grows Tyranical and prove unjust in most of their Actions the People grow weary of their Burdens and are inclinable to Rebellion the Gentry of those Kingdoms under Gemini are also much afflicted both in their Body and Estate some of them will suffer Imprisonment others Death in short a change may be expected this year in those places under Gemini we have also the Sun in the Figure of the New-Star directed to the Quartile of Mars Lord of the 4th House and the Sun is Lord of the 12th in that Figure now shall those Villanies that has lain hidden for many years break out and shew themselves in their proper Colours The Quartile falls in Capricorn the Ascendant of Oxford I pray God that City may not be afflicted the Heavens points something more then ordinary should befall that place and all the places under Capricorn and Cancer for the Moon meets with the Quartile of Mars in Cancer her own House also at the same time shall Holland be free from trouble No for Mars is a stirer up of Sedition and War a suddain fear will possess that people of another Invasion Likewise they shall suffer great losses by Inundation of Water the Mid-heaven of the New star meets with the Quartile of Mercury the Quartile falls in Leo upon the Cusp of the 12th Now if the Mid-heaven Represents all Kings and Magistrates then those shall find great trouble in those Countrys under Leo the 12th is the 3d. from the 10th viz. Kings and their Kindred shall disagree the New Star 1604. meets by direction the Quartile of Saturn and Jupiter 1603. Now this New Star by the consent of Antients is thought to be the forerunner of an universal Monarch that shall be upon the Earth which can never be without having a great deal of War and Bloodshed First therefore shall this Quartile excite mens minds to War and Contention to the utter Destruction of most of these Monarchs now in being in those places under Pisces where the Quartile falls and Mars the place of the New Star and the great conjunction and Gemini the opposite signe and Virgo the opposite signe to the Quartile will be the Places most subject to the effects of the Directions In the year 1683 January About the latter end there is another Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter and the New Moon before that the Sun suffer an Eclips near the Cusp of the 9th and Saturu and Jupiter both of them oppose the 9th also this shews that Religion shall suffer much this year and so shall the Clergy in general it doth presage publick forrow to the Gentry or men of the highest Rank those places under Aquares Leo Scorpio and Taurus will be subject most to the effects of this Eclips the Moon also suffers an Eclips on the first of February about three a clock in the afternoon upon the Cusp of the second House
but the Animosities among men were so great that they were not able to compleat any thing but it is possible that some League was made there between some Princes to joyn against others Saturn and Jupiter make this Year their first Opposition from Sagitarius and Gemini Saturn being in 5.48 of Sagitarius and Jupiter in 5.48 of Gemini Saturn being so near the place of the great Conjunction 1603 and there is opposed by Jupiter this brings strange and unheard of Translations upon the Stage of the World Spain still is a looser and drinks deep of the Cup of affliction Now London this Opposition points a little at thee a great deal of Faction is like to be in thee thou harb'rest a crew of Villains that seek thy Ruine there will be a pay day for them France look thou to thy hits thou of all Nations will be the greatest Sufferer and you may find about these times that God is just Hungaria is made like unto a Wilderness by her Devastations But be thou content after thy Storm is over which as yet must last a little longer thou shalt injoy a long peace SECT 10. Of the Astrological Judgment of the Year 1692. ALL the Directions that will be this Year is only Mercury to the Quartile of his own place but there is the second Opposition of Saturn and Jupiter Saturn being 14.11 of Sagitarius and Jupiter 14.11 of Gemini There is also a very remarkable Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in 15 degrees of Sagitarius very near the New Star 1604. there is also no less than 5 Eclypses this Year the first falls on the 23d of January an Eclypse of the Moon at 2 of the Clock in 14 degrees of Leo the second is of the Sun on the 6th of February about 5 of the Clock at Night in 28 degrees of Aquarius these two are not visible the third will be an Eclypse of the Moon on the 18th day of July at 4 of the Clock in the Morning in 6 degrees of Aquarius the 4th will be of the Sun August the 2d day at 9 of the Clock in the Morning in 20 degrees of Leo and the last will be of the Sun on the 27th day of December at 2 of the Clock in the Afternoon in 17 degrees of Capricornus Both these two of the Sun and the last of the Moon are visible Now comes the tripple Conjunction 1682 to operate to the purpose The Sun suffering an Eclypse upon the very degree of that Conjunction and the Moon suffers an Eclypse upon the very degree of the Conjunction May 1683. Alass poor Italy how art thou afflicted Spain is also Partakers with thee thou art threatned with scarcity of Grain many of thy People will dye for want of Bread and those that are left will be Rebels against their Governours it declares damage to Kings and great Persons viz. their Death or Banishment a Pope if there be any about these times will dye France and England are intoxicated with Tribulation but in what nature time will best declare The Hungarians drink deep of the Cup of Affliction a great Famine is threatned them and all the East part of Germany France is more concerned than England nay she shall quake for fear Alass Bohemia thou art in a bad condition and so is Sicily the Tartars and the Sweed are much concerned this Year SECT 11. Of the Astrological Judgment of the Year 1693. IN this Year 1693 Mercury in the great Conjunction comes to the Quartile of the Conjunction it self And in this Year viz. April the 22d day Saturn and Jupiter make the third and last Opposition Saturn being in 21.16 of Sagitarius and Jupiter 21.16 And there is also an Opposition of Saturn and Mars in July following Saturn 16-0 in Sagitarius and Mars 16 in Gemini There are also 4 Eclypses of the Luminaries this Year 2 of the Sun and 2 of the Moon the first is of the Moon on January the 12th day at 4 of the Clock in the Morning in 1 degree of Leo visible and a great one the second will be of the Sun on the 23d day of June near Noon in 12 degrees of Cancer this will be a very great Eclypse as has happened this 40 Years the third will be of the Moon July the 7th near 10 of the Clock in the Morning in 25 degrees of Cancer the last will be of the Sun on December the 16th day at Midnight it will be a great Eclypse but not visible The judgment of this year differs but little from the last Bohemia is afflicted with a scarcity of Grain and other Provision fit for Food The Comet that appeared in 1680 has lately passed the Quartile of Saturn Saturn is in Cancer and the Comet in Aries Hence are England and Scotland concerned the last time that Saturn was in Opposition of Jupiter was in the Year 1634 and then there was a great Plague in Rome some such like Distemper will rage there this Year a great many of the great men will dye of that place whether Cardinals or Popes let time declare they have before now had 2 or 3 Popes in a Year I also fear that a many Towns about in England will have a Plague or some Distemper as bad Spain Hungary and Dalmatia are still in a distraction what must Spain still be a loser Those places under Cancer will be afflicted with Calamity a Mortality will rage within the Countries Ceranado Burgandy and Holland men shall be very much given to Knavery many Diseases to Women sudden and unexpected Deaths to the meaner sort of People The City Gemini must expect to have share of this years Transactions if some of thy Magistrates should be brought to Justice then say I am a true Prophet many Villainies will be acted in thee some Plots will be discovered and the Actors brought to Punishment SECT 12. Of the Astrological Judgment of the Year 1694. IN this Year there is no direction of the great Conjunction 1603 nor of the New Star 1604 but we have a notable Conjunction of Saturn and Mars December the 10th in 6 degrees of Capricornus Besides there is a visible Eclypse of the Sun in Opposition to the Conjuction of Saturn and Mars on the 12th day of June at 5 of the Clock at Night The second Eclypse of the Sun is on December 6 at 5 of the Clock at Night in 25 degrees of Sagitarius the place of the Sun in the great Conjunction The first Eclipse of the Moon is January the first day at Noon in 22 degrees of Cancer not visible The second of the Moon falls on the 26th of June at 12 of the Clock at Night in 15 degrees of Capricornus From these foregoing Configuration I draw these following Judgments The Sweeds and Tartarians are up in Arms and so are the Muscovâ—tes the Tartar Invades Muscovy and brings great Calamity upon that Country the Dane or some other Country Invades Sweedland there shall be a great destruction
to a many Cities and a great slaughter of their Inhabitants the Hollander draws near to an end of that manner of way of Government yet shall no Crown'd head ever conquer it the change will come by the Peoples consent Scotland is much disquieted and will go nigh to Rebel Burgundy shall tast of the Cup and Venice will go nigh to be taken by the Plaguerage York will tast of the evil of this Year neither shall Oxford be free there is a bitter potion for that City to drink which God in his Mercy divert Brandenburg will feel the smart of War Ireland thou must come in for a share of suffering in short such will be the subtilty of the Roman Clergy that they by their insinuating shall draw most if not all the Princes of Europe to their destruction all which shall but make way for their own which will be compleated in a few Years now SECT 13. Of the Astrological Judgment of the Year 1695. IN this Year we have no Directions of the great Conjunction nor of the New Star 1604 that are considerable therefore we look to the other Configurations of the Planets and Eclypses We have a famous Opposition of Saturn and Mars Saturn being in 8 degrees of Capricornus and Mars 8 degrees in Cancer it falls on the 12th of August There are four Eclypses this Year The first is of the Moon which falls on May the 18th day at 10 of the Clock in the Morning in 7 degrees of Sagitarius the place of the great Conjunction 1603 but not visible The second will be of the Sun on the first of June at 5 of the Clock at Night in 21 degrees of Gemini the Ascendant of London and visible The third will be of the Moon on November the 10th day at 8 of the Clock at Night in 28 degrees of Taurus near the Pleiades and visible The last will be of the Sun on the 26th day of November in 15 degrees of Sagitarius near the place of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1663. From these Configurations I find that the Sweed is still in Arm against a Potent Enemy the Tartar both afflicts the Muscovite and the Polander he doth great mischief to Christendom viz. he will destroy a great many Towns in those Countries lying next him and carry their People Captive The Eclypse of the Sun in Sagitarius brings great affliction to Spain with the destruction of their small and great Cattel great Out-rages and Robberies and Inhumane Murthers committed in Hungaria Dalmatia yea and in England too if not in London it declares the Death of a many of the Nobility in these places under Gemini Mars is Lord of the Ascendant of the figure of the Eclypse and is in Taurus in Opposition to it from whence may be expected popular Insurrections in those places under Gemini Ireland cannot as yet be free from trouble nor Holland Scotland and Burgundy In this Year Saturn and Jupiter makes their first Trine from Capricornus and Virgo Saturn being in 8.8 of Capricornus and Jupiter in 8.8 of Virgo this Trine were it for the weakness of Jupiter might produce peace to the World there will be great Meetings and Treaties for Peace but the strength of Saturn and the Conjunctions of Saturn and Mars in Capricornus hinders the good design of Saturn and instead of Peace flings Europe in worser Broyls than before SECT 14. Of the Astrological Judgment of the Year 1696. IN this Year the Ascendant of the New Star comes by direction to the body of Mercury in Scorpio and the Mid-heaven to the Conjuction of Saturn and Jupiter 1682. There is also a notable Conjunction of Saturn and Mars ou the 16th day of December There is also two remarkable Eclypses of the Moon the first falls on May the 6th at Midnight in 27 degrees of Scorpio visible and the second falls on October 30 about 4 of the Clock in the Morning in 18 degrees of Taurus also visible The Figurations of this Year make me to judge that the Turk is not as yet in Peace neither hath the Tartar returned into his own Country the Muscovit is still very much disturbed and will not rest in Peace for some years The Hollander about this time recelves very much damage by Inundations and their loss of their Ships abroad Ireland cannot be free from the Male-volent-influence of the Stars the poor English that inhabit there will suffer much thou treacherous Irish forbear to do so much mischief if thou doth attempt to Invade England you must expect to return if you could although at the first you may seem to get the better yet it will be but a lightning before Death Thou must not expect to be a free People not this 20 Years thou art like to have but small Crops of Corn whether it will be from the Barrenness of the Earth or because the Corn was destroyed upon the ground by a rebellious sort of People or both time will best discover a Person little less than a Queen should dye this Year in some Country under Taurus The Eclypses of the Moon in Scorpio declares Seditions Murthers and all manner of wretchedness In this Year there is no less than two Trines of Saturn and Jupiter from Capricornus and Virgo Saturn being in 23 degrees of Capricornus and Jupiter 23 degrees of Virgo strong will be the endeavours of the Princes of the Earth for Peace and most People are in hopes of accomplishing that so much longed for thing but behold they have brought things as to every one's thinking to a Conclusion then comes the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in Capricornus and destroys all their hopes in a moment and bloody Wars succeed SECT 15. Of the Astrological Judgment for the Year 1697. IN this Year we have no directions of the great Conjunction nor of the New Star 1604 but about August the 27th day there is an Opposition of Saturn and Mars Saturn being in 2 degrees of Aquarius and in 2 degrees of Leo and there are 3 Eclypses this year the first is of the Sun on the 11th day of May at one of the Clock in the morning in 1 degree of Taurus the second is the Moon on May the 26th day at 8 of the Clock in the morning in 16 degrees of Scorpio the last is of the Moon October the 19th day at 8 of the Clock at Night in 7 degrees of Taurus visible There is also the first Square of Saturn and Jupiter this year Saturn being in 1.3 of Aquarius and Jupiter is in 1.3 of Scorpio Hard is the fate of poor Holland Scotland and Ireland for to indure so long a time of sorrow yet thou art not alone for Tartary and Muscovia shares with thee for the Polander now beats the Tartar and sends him home with a Flea in his Ear Now doth the Turk gain ground upon Italy now doth he feel the effects of the triple Conjunction to purpose This first Quartile makes a